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EC2 Micro Instance as a Remote Bittorrent Client

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Re: EC2 Micro Instance as a Remote Bittorrent Client

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Use a prepaid credit card; use a payphone for the phone call confirmation.

sounds like a lot of work to just get around buying content :)

I would have killed for this when living on campus.

Re: EC2 Micro Instance as a Remote Bittorrent Client

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Using S3 torrents wouldn't help you seed, since you'd have to use the same tracker (original) as everyone else.

Couldn't you just add the tracker url from the s3 torrent to the torrent file you generate?

Sure, but you then need to get everyone else downloading the (original) torrent to download and use your new torrent. The new amazon torrent might split the file into differently sized chunks compared to the original. In short, you'd need to get all original downloads/uploaded to use your new torrent.

Re: EC2 Micro Instance as a Remote Bittorrent Client

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Your safest and cheapest bet is to get a seedbox in France. http://dediseedbox.com

Another pretty well-known seedbox hoster is Xirvik ( http://www.xirvik.com/ ). I'm pretty sure such services are cheap compared to the crazy bandwidth costs you'd pay with Amazon.
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